Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 201:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.'You talk here in the public haunt of men.

  Either withdraw unto some private place,

  Or reason coldly of your grievances,

  Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us'.

  This appeal is made by

  Options:
  A) Romeo to Mercutio
  B) Benvolio to Tybalt
  C) Benvolio to both Tybalt and Mercutio
  D) Romeo to both Mercutio and Tybalt.
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 202:

  A poem of 14 lines is known as__________

  Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) octave
  C) sestet
  D) quatrain
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is A .
• Question 203:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  In the novel, Boxer is respected for his

  Options:
  A) duplicity
  B) reticence
  C) intellect
  D) hard work
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 204:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'

  John Updike, The Centaur.

  The long haul in the narrative above describes

  Options:
  A) a long strike
  B) Christmas and Easter holidays
  C) a long period of hard work
  D) a long vacation
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 205: Which of the following is central to narrative friction ? Options:
  A) Verisimilitude
  B) Dialogue
  C) Objectivity
  D) Subjectivity
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 206:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a conic-tragedy, the unknotting of the plot, the resolution of the mystery and the resolution of the misunderstanding is called

  Options:
  A) peripety
  B) exposition
  C) denouement
  D) catharsis
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 207: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?''
  Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
  The mood of the quotation in this passage is Options:
  A) tragically comic
  B) deadly serious
  C) playfully serious
  D) humorously comic
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 208:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called

  Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) a dirge
  D) a monoloque
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is B .
• Question 209:

  This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days

  Yaremi's main job is

  Options:
  A) selling cassava
  B) harvesting cassava
  C) dyeing taffeta cloths
  D) sewing taffeta cloths
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 210:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

  Options:
  A) want to marry the photographer
  B) feel more important than Baroka
  C) want to go to the city
  D) appreciate Lakunle's learning
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is B .